Three years ago, if someone told me I was going to write a book, I would have declared them "looney tunes" — no if, ands, or buts about it! Well, as it turned out, I decided to take the financial knowledge crammed in my noggin since I started investing in 1980 and stuff it into an investment book for my daughters. Certainly, it would make little sense to let such accumulated experiences evaporate when my ashes were finally tossed to the winds...﻿Read More

Where ﻿﻿Did﻿﻿ All Those Zany Names Come From?

Several beta readers mentioned the difficulty of remembering the unique names in the The New World: A Step Backward. In fact, at one point I considered changing them to something easier in response to the concern. When I told my wife, Bonnie, that I was thinking about coming up with simpler names, a possessed creature suddenly lunged at my throat, claws extended. "You can't change those names! I've fallen in love with them." The truth is, I had too. So, they are what they are…Read More

﻿Ferocious Creatures Never Seen by Humans

Let me introduce you to the world of MUCLONES. In The New World: A Step Backward the revengeful villain, Zolokt, unleashes hoards of cloned mutants upon the villagers of Ukkiville. I didn't want to have to write "cloned mutants" over and over again, so I twisted and turned those two words in as many variations as possible and decided upon a new term — "muclones" as the best fit. I even googled it and found no occurrences of the word for such a beast…Read More